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Dmitry Shkolnik
I am an economist and data scientist, specializing in marketplaces, experimentation, causal inference, and spatial analysis
Experience
Lead Economist/Data Scientist, Marketplace, Mobility, and Deliveries
Grab
Singapore
current - 2020
- I lead a small team that develops quantitative solutions for business and strategy problems, as well as product ideas.
- Areas: transportation, food, merchant and deliveries marketplace strategy and new products; pricing, incentives, behaviour; and, pre product development hypotheses, estimation, scoping, and experimentation
- Methods: causal inference, econometrics and machine learning, experiment design and quasi-experimentation
- Tech: R, SQL, Presto, Hive, Spark
Senior Economist/Data Scientist, Marketplace
Grab
Singapore
2020 - 2019
Data Scientist
Destination Canada
Vancouver, CA
2018 - 2015
- Research lead on modernizing national tourist segmentation system
- Research lead for initiatives using non-traditional data (mobile phone, social media, financial) for tourism research
- Developed data visualization and exploration dashboards and pipelines
- Tech: R, Tableau
Consulting Economist
Columbia Pacific Consulting
Vancouver, CA
2015 - 2013
- Analysis and modelling of labour market and demographic data.
- Economic consulting services for use in legal proceedings and settlements
Education
M.A.. Economics
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, CA
2013 - 2012
- Thesis area: investigating spatial agglomeration spillovers using online data
B.A., Hons Economics, International Relations
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, CA
2011 - 2006
Selected open-source work and posts
I regularly blog about data science, package development, and visualization on my personal site at dshkol.com
Cancensus
R Package
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- Access, retrieve, and work with Canadian Census data and geography.
- Co-creator, Maintainer
- Available on CRAN > 1000 dl/month
Cansim
R Package
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- An R package to retrieve and work with public Statistics Canada data tables.
- Co-creator
- Available on CRAN > 1500 dl/month
Airportr
R Package
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- A package to work with open source airport data with tools to look up information, translate names and codes into other formats, as well as some basic calculation functions for measuring distances.
- Creator
- Available on CRAN > 750 dl/month
Diversity and segrigation in Canadian cities
Writing/Post
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- Applying information theory measures to quantify ethnic diversity and segregation patterns in Canadian cities using Census data
Mirror images: city similarity with t-SNE
Writing/Post
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- Identifying similarity of Canadian cities using high dimensional clustering and t-SNE visualizations